Show Substitutes for Tapioca Supplies of tapioca cut off by the war in the Orient may be replaced by homegrown waxy corn a kind of corn with a special type of starch suitable for both food and industrial uses Development of this promising promis promis- ing emergency crop for the Corn Belt has already reached the stage where the department believes it itcan itcan itcan can be put into commercial production production production tion by 1943 Preliminary breeding work on waxy corn has been underway under underway underway way since 1936 and it Is now only a matter of increasing the available supply of seed to obtain the production production production tion needed |